Williams died on August 4, 2015 from complications of knee surgery.[6][7] He was sixty-four and survived by his wife Brandi and four children. He was a member of the Living Faith Christian Center in Baton Rouge.[1] he was preceded in death by his father Henry Ferdinand Williams, mother Etha Mae Greene( Richardson)brother, Linell Therod Williams and father in law, Aubrey Burrell.

Williams worked as a counselor for the office of the Attorney General of Louisiana and as an assistant to the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney. He was the director of the Baton Rouge Substance Abuse Clinic and administrator for the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse for Region II. He ran unsuccessfully for the District 61 House seat in 1999. From 2003 to 2005, Williams was a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board.[3] He vacated the school board position in 2005 to join the administration of Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden, another African-American. He also operated a consulting business, The Conrad Group, which specializes in aiding minority businesses in obtaining contracts with public and private agencies.[1]

Representative Williams was a member of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and the Democratic Caucus. He was the chairman of the Labor and Industrial Relations Committee and serves as well on the Civil Law and Procedure Committee, and the House Committee on Enrollment.[4]

In 2014, Williams voted for the requirement that abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges near their clinics; only five House members opposed the measure. That same year, he voted to extend the time for implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. He voted to forbid the transportation of dogs in open truck beds on interstate highways.[10]

In 2013, Williams voted to reduce penalties for the possession of marijuana and opposed lifetime concealed carry gun permits and voting to make such information on weapon permits part of the public record. He voted to increase judicial pay and to end the mandatory retirement age for judges. In 2012, he voted to prohibit the use of cell phones while driving and opposed state tax incentives to recruit a National Basketball Association team to Louisiana. He opposed reducing the number of hours that polling locations remain open. Louisiana has traditionally had 14-hour polling days. He opposed the requirement for drug testing of welfare recipients.[10]